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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">High-ranking officials at the United States Embassy in Kingston believe Jamaican lottery scammers fleeced an estimated J$2.5 billion from their victims in 2008 alone.
The multibillion-dollar figure was contained in a sensitive diplomatic cable sent from the Kingston post on January 6, 2009, to senior operatives in Washington, DC.
"It is estimated that more than US$30 million was transferred to Jamaica by victims of the lottery scam," read a section of the cable obtained through the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.
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The multibillion-dollar figure was contained in a sensitive diplomatic cable sent from the Kingston post on January 6, 2009, to senior operatives in Washington, DC.
"It is estimated that more than US$30 million was transferred to Jamaica by victims of the lottery scam," read a section of the cable obtained through the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.
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